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Show 84 on rising for a look, and he had to sit down or find himself embarrassed. And he grew even more deceitful. Sergeant Koontz, the cynosure of the Detachments, the Gibraltar of Naka Oji, began to transgress the rules with the greatest abandon - or, to put it exactly - - to transgress whatever kept him from Kimiko. He had to be with her, no squiggle of letters on paper (or spate of syllables from a passing Japanese) could stand in his way. With quiet efficiency he set to work. The new position eased matters, for Sid and Louise didn't really need the two servants the Army provided, and much of Kimiko's day was free. Time was no problem; now for space. That was more difficult, but not impossible. The Ojis were full of military menages, and though Koontz would have none of such dingy habitations - - would not put his lovely girl in a hovel - - he had only to go farther afield, adn pay a higher price, to find a place worthy of her: the Seikoro, at Nishi. Nishi was the only Oji without an army installation, for it was the smallest and least important. It lay over the hill |